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81st Year, No. 15 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Monday, September 21, 1970
See pages 10 & 11
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Board of Regents Discusses Budget Friday in Meeting
... five changes made in student activity fee allocations
Four Incidents Reported
Outbreak of Racial Fighting Occurs near Residence Halls
By RITA HAUGH
Kansan Staff Writer
Four incidents of racial fighting occurred on the KU campus late Friday night and early Saturday morning, Donald Alderson, dean of men, said Sunday.
One incident involving a large number of people occurred inside McCollum Hall, two incidents occurred outside Ellsworth Hall, and one incident occurred east of the stadium, he said.
Two men were admitted to Watkins Hospital, Alderson said.
One of the black girls threw a lighted cigarette at one of the white men.
The black girl let the elevator go, and the whites went to one man's room for a party.
EVENTS PIECED together from interviews with students who witnessed the incidents form this story:
Shortly before midnight Friday, five white students got onto an elevator in McCollum which four black girls had just left.
The second incident occurred outside the north end of Ellsworth Hall about 12:15 a.m. A girl was walking to Ellsworth, where she lives, when a group of blacks walked toward her on the sidewalk and said, "Hev. get outta the way."
Less than five minutes later the black girls came to the white man's room with four black men. One white student said he thought that the black men were trying to calm down the situation, and that the black girls were angry. He apologized to the blacks and tried to explain that his friend was drunk.
They pushed her into the bicycle rack in front of the hall, she said. She stayed in the
rack until the blacks were distracted and walked toward Hashinger. She didn't recognize any of the blacks as residents of the hall and thought they looked too young to be in college, she said.
She went into the hall and asked Ron Mizeur, Davenport, Ia., senior, who was the resident assistant on duty, if he could lock the front doors.
Mizeur said he went outside followed by a resident assistant who was not on duty and Paul Hughes, Kansas City freshman whose brother was in the fight.
Two or three blacks led this
man to a car, which drove away. Then Mizeur said he saw a white male get up near the bench. His face was bleeding and he had blood on his shirt, Mizeur said.
Mizeur said he saw a black come from under the bushes on the north side of the front entrance of the hall.
Mizeur sent a student inside to ask Miss Denton to call Traffic and Security. He then noticed six or seven cars full of blacks cruising through the area, he said.
"I WAS TRYING the best I could," Hughes said of the fight. "It wasn't over a minute that they had me down. Everything happened really quickly." Hughes said he recognized the man that hit him first as the same person he saw throwing chairs in the cafeteria in Oliver Hall during summer school.
See OUTBREAK page 16
StudEx Asks Fee Boycott, Rips Regents
By MIKE MOFFET and BOB LITRAS Kansan, Staff, Writers
Members of the Student Senate Executive Committee (StudEx) Sunday called on Kansas students to refuse to pay spring semester activity fees.
The statement came in response to actions taken in the Friday meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents, when the board made changes in a budget submitted by the Student Senate.
THE REGENTS adopted the recommendations of a special subcommittee, which called for a reduction in the Black Student Union allocation from $18,950 to $14,000, an increase in the Engineering Council's appropriation from $750 to $2,575, an allotment of $900 to the KU Rifle Club, and deletion of a $10,000 allocation to Catalyst.
StudEx criticized the regents' actions as "irresponsible and unfair, and unacceptable to the students of this university." It endorsed a strike in which students "will refuse to pay the $12 per semester fee until (1) the regents give full control of activity fee money back to the students, or (2) the students determine to abolish the activity fee."
FURTHERMORE, StudEx refused, "on behalf of the students at the University of Kansas" to comply with the regents' decisions on the 1970-71 budget.
StudEx characterized the regents as "political appointees who answer only to the dictates of patronage." It said it was "ironic that those who perceive themselves as the defenders of democracy are the first to ignore democratic process to satisfy their own prejudices."
StudEx interpreted the regent's action as an effort "to cut or eliminate entirely all of those things to which they cannot relate—such as the Black Student Union, Women's Center and Catalyst."
Moreover, StudEx saw the regents as "eager to reinstate those things which they understand—Engineering Council, Rifle Club, and Athletics."
THE RELEASE concluded by asserting the students" "right and responsibility to allocate student activity fees as they see the need."
Other action at the regents meeting included a discussion that followed Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmer's report on the Kansas Union insurance policy.
In response to Chalmers' report that premiums would increase to $111,000 from $20,000, Regent Henry Bubb of Topeka said there was an increased need for respect for the law.
BUBB REFERRED to President Nixon's speech at Kansas State University in saying, "We need more faculty and administrators who will stand up and be counted as President Nixon said."
In a special regents meeting last summer, Bubb instigated See **GREENTS** page 16
State Sen. Revnolds Shultz
. . . called upon "to cool his rhetoric"
Opponent Criticizes Shultz's Statement
Richard Rome, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, strongly criticized on Saturday his opponent's remarks about the death of Rick Dowdell, the black youth killed in Lawrence in July.
State Sen. Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, said last week that Lawrence "didn't lose a thing" when the 19-year-old former KU student was shot to death by Lawrence police.
"This apparent disregard by Senator Shultz for the life of a human being breaks all the rules of responsibility," Rome said.
Rome called upon the senator and his party to repudiate the statement and to cool their rhetoric. "This is no time for street judgment or irrational thinking," he said.
"Such statements make me recall that one of Senator Shultz's Republican opponents called him a dinga-ling in their primary fight," Rome said. "I was a little shocked at the time, but now I'm beginning to wonder."
Rome made his remarks while campaigning in Reno County.